Armenian Genocide Conference at the Sorbonne Under the Patronage of French President Francois Hollande

Armenian National Assembly Adopts Greek and Assyrian Genocide Recognition Statement

PARIS — An international conference organized by the International Scientific Council for the study of the Armenian Genocide (CSI) titled “Genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the Great War. 1915-2015: One hundred years of research” solemnly opened at the Sorbonne on March 25. The three day conference is held under the patronage of French President Francois Hollande.
This exceptional event has brought together tens of researchers and historians from different countries of the world.

French Minister of Education and Research, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, inaugurated the International Symposium, delivering a powerful speech recounting the dark hours of the first genocide of the twentieth century. She said “the rigorous study of sources, survivor testimonies and documents has established this truth that no longer must be debated in the academic community about the reality of the Armenian genocide.”
Among the historians in attendance are Yves Ternon, Stephan Astourian, Erdal Kaynar, Claire Mouradian, Sait Çetinnoglu Mustafa Aksakal, Richard Hovannisian, Vincent Duclert, Raymond Kevorkian, KM-Ümit Kurt, Ara Sarafian, Hans-Lukas Kieser, Georges Bensoussan, David Gaunt, Sia Anagnostopoulou, Joël Kotek, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Hamit Borzasian, Peter Holquist, Erik-Jan Zürcher, Mikaël Nichanian, Dzovinar Kevonian, Edhem Eldem, Ayhan Aktar, Boris Adjemian, Henry Rousso, Mutafian clude Alban Perrin, Hira Kaynar, Jesn-Pierre Chretien, Dominik Schaller, Roger Smith, Christian Ingrao, Nicols Werth, Helene Dumas and Taner Akcam.
Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem will attend the commemorations in Yerevan on April 24 with President Francois Hollande.

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Armenian National Assembly Adopts Greek and Assyrian Genocide Recognition Statement

YEREVAN — The National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of a statement recognizing the genocide of Greeks and Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey.

All 117 members of the 131-seat body who were present in the chamber supported the document drafted jointly by all six factions.

The statement says that the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, guided by the respective principles and provisions of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 96(1) of 11 December 1946, the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948, the United Nations Convention on the Non­Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of 26 November 1968, as well the international acts on the human rights; recording the centuries­old friendly relations of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian peoples, states that it condemns the genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians, committed by the Ottoman Turkey in 1915­1923.

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